The future development trend and direction of Yimeng folk paper-cut art
Nowadays, with the further deepening of reform and opening up, Western culture has deeply impacted our national culture, and many folk customs have gradually faded out. Therefore, the paper-cut industry that thrives mainly depends on various folk customs, and the art of paper-cut has flourished. What will happen tomorrow and where will the art of paper-cutting go? It is a topic of great concern. The prosperity of the market economy has brought many conveniences to peoples lives, and the emergence of cheap printed matter has made todays paper-cutting gradually become a pure decoration. Facing the shrinking market, customs that have been propagated for thousands of years are in danger in just a hundred years. At this time, the governments protection of those extremely valuable and disadvantaged folk crafts becomes crucial. If the "living body" can be preserved, its value can be studied by future generations.
Nowadays, paper-cutting has also become a part of the Chinese folk cultural heritage rescue project, and has become one of the projects that urgently needs to be rescued and protected in my countrys national cultural and artistic forms. How to protect the art of Yimeng paper-cutting and stimulate the vitality of Yimeng paper-cutting art, and further promote the folk paper-cutting art, we must adhere to the principle of inheritance and innovation, go deep into the folk, and constantly summarize and excavate. Various county and district cultural centers and stations often hold various forms of paper-cutting. competition activities, so that this ancient traditional folk culture and art can be carried forward. A series of paper-cut creation competitions with themes such as "Beautiful Yimeng, My Home" were also organized to create many new works with the characteristics of the times, depicting the natural scenery, customs, products and resources of Yimeng area from different angles etc., showing the revolutionary style of Yimeng Old Area and actively and effectively promoting the development of folk paper-cutting art. Furthermore, the "please come in and go out" method can be adopted to hold various forms of "Yimeng Folk Paper-cutting Art Festival", allowing many Yimeng folk paper-cutting artists to perform wonderful paper-cutting art performances and display a variety of lifelike paper-cutting works. It also makes people who come feel the artistic charm of this folk culture with strong local flavor. It can also co-organize folk paper-cut art festivals with other representative "hometowns of paper-cut art" to promote mutual exchanges and jointly prosper and develop folk paper-cut art. alsoPaper-cutting art majors with Yimeng characteristics can be established in the art departments of local colleges and universities, and local folk artists can be invited to teach on-site. Folk art elective courses for all students can be opened in non-art colleges and universities to combine folk artists and paper-cutting art. Please come into the classroom; consciously carry out paper-cutting teaching in regular teaching in primary and secondary schools, and hold paper-cutting art exhibitions and competitions, etc.
In addition, Yimeng paper-cutting can also be widely used in all aspects of rural production and life. For example, the art of paper-cutting is applied to fruit production, a complete collection of paper-cutting patterns is dried on fruits, and a series of "artistic fruits" are developed, allowing people to While tasting the fruits, you will get great artistic enjoyment. We can also actively cultivate a reserve army of Yimeng folk paper-cutting, cultivate their deep feelings of loving and cherishing the traditional national art, and stimulate their patriotism, national pride, and self-confidence. Utilizing district and county cultural centers to actively support the development of paper-cutting art with a special responsibility and enthusiasm, a group of outstanding paper-cutting authors with profound life and artistic accumulation have emerged, and more people have recognized the value of paper-cutting art and begun to devote themselves to paper-cutting. Artistic creation can obtain relatively generous economic profits in the tide of commodity economy, thereby promoting the healthy development of Yimeng folk paper-cutting, pushing Yimeng paper-cutting art to the domestic market, and competing for its own consumer groups in the domestic and international markets.
